Author: Edgar Thurston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107600685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Part of the Provincial Geography of India series, this 1913 volume, concentrates on Madras, Mysore, Coorg, and other associated states.
The Madras Presidency with Mysore, Coorg and the Associated States
Author: Edgar Thurston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107600685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Part of the Provincial Geography of India series, this 1913 volume, concentrates on Madras, Mysore, Coorg, and other associated states.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107600685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Part of the Provincial Geography of India series, this 1913 volume, concentrates on Madras, Mysore, Coorg, and other associated states.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India
Author: Edgar Thurston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Rural Society in Southeast India
Author: Kathleen Gough
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521040191
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanjāvūr district of southeast India based on fieldwork done by the author in 1951-3. Differing from the usual village study, Gough's work traces the history of the villages over the past century and examines the impact of colonialism on the district since 1770. The volume's theoretical significance lies in its attempt to define more clearly the characteristics of rural class relations, particularly addressing the question whether Indian agrarian relations are still precapitalist. This study not only provides a vivid account of village life in southeast India in the 1950s (to be followed by a later study done in the 1970s), but also contributes to theory concerning modes of production, class structures in the Third World, and underdevelopment.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521040191
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanjāvūr district of southeast India based on fieldwork done by the author in 1951-3. Differing from the usual village study, Gough's work traces the history of the villages over the past century and examines the impact of colonialism on the district since 1770. The volume's theoretical significance lies in its attempt to define more clearly the characteristics of rural class relations, particularly addressing the question whether Indian agrarian relations are still precapitalist. This study not only provides a vivid account of village life in southeast India in the 1950s (to be followed by a later study done in the 1970s), but also contributes to theory concerning modes of production, class structures in the Third World, and underdevelopment.
The Madura Country
Author: James Henry Nelson
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120604247
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120604247
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
South India
Author: Christopher John Baker
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349027464
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349027464
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Rice Economy of Asia
Author: Randolph Barker
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 0915707152
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the role of rice in the food and agricultural sectors of Asian nations.
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 0915707152
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the role of rice in the food and agricultural sectors of Asian nations.
Unfinished Gestures
Author: Davesh Soneji
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226768090
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226768090
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Castes of Mind
Author: Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.
The famine campaign in Southern India
Author: William Digby
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Village Government in British India
Author: John Matthai
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description